Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
#quotes #maya-angelou #smoking #music

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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